It is a work in progress, feel free to raise issues or contribute on the issue tracker.

You can find the extension on the VS Code Marketplace.

The main commands should work but selections currently do not.

Right now commands are hardcoded to the default keymap, hopefully this can be adjusted to the user's keymap in the future.

If something doesn't work, please open an issue.

For added performance, you can try adding the following setting, and reload/restart VSCode:

"extensions.experimental.affinity": {
  "jasew.vscode-helix-emulation": 1
}

There will be some differences between this extension and native Helix, these will be due:

• Both are visually different and offer different features (such as VS Code having multiple windows and tabs rather than buffers)
• VS Code not having TreeSitter or an AST, so we need to find other ways of achieving the same action.
• Additional keybindings to match more how VS Code works

Due to VS Code having tabs I've needed to add some new windows modes on top of the current Helix ones, these commands are based around movements, (i.e moving the editor from one window to another).

Most of the differences will be related to the fact VSCode doesn't have TreeSitter or have access to an AST. So we often need to find other ways of achieving the same action.

• mif/maf both do the same, they will select the outer function range. Getting the inner function body isn't achievable because LSP doesn't give us that, and we can't hardcode blocks (incompatibilty with python for example)

Feel free to pick up any of these if you wanted to contribute.

• #3 Commit checkpoints, extensions don't have access to VS Code's back/forward stack. So it would need to have its own stack in memory which can be manipulated.
• #4 Custom keymaps, currently keymaps are matching Helix

• ctrl + k (delete to end of line) needs to be ctrl + l instead due to it conflicting with VS Code's chord mode which extensions can't turn off.